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Ultra-processed foods: challenging corporate power and promoting local food systems to reclaim health. [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health
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Lobbying and Compromise [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
The compromise enhancing effect of lobbying on public policy has been established in two typical settings. In the first, lobbies are assumed to act as “principals” and the setters of the policy (the candidates in a Downsian electoral competition or the elected policy maker in a citizen-candidate model of electoral competition) are conceived as “agents”.
Gil S. Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan
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Endogenous Lobbying [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of the European Economic Association, 2001
In this paper we endogenize the number and characteristics of lobbies in a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy where citizens can lobby an elected policy-maker. We find that lobbying always matters. That is, lobbying always affects equilibrium policy outcomes. Moreover, only one policy outcome emerges in equilibrium.
Leonardo Felli, Antonio M. Merlo
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The Abolition Lobby

2021
Stanley Harrold's “The Abolition Lobby, its Development, Successes, and Disintegration, 1836-1845,” brings to light the so-called abolition lobby—abolitionist activists, clergymen, and journalists determined to mobilize the caucus of northern Whig congressmen to propose antislavery legislation during the decade before the Mexican American War.
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